Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

MRS. MARTIN and her two children, occu-
plying cabin in the woods in Henderson
County, KY, were burned to death by
forest fires on the 24th.
AT Anna, O., an engineer and fireman
were killed in a smash-up on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton road on the Goth.
The celebrated arson suit brought by the
California Fire Insurance Company against
Lambert & Bishop, the wire mill company
at Joliet, Ill, was won by the latter, the
jury on the 25th returning verdict of '.no
cause for action" The insurance company
Immediately appealed The defendants
would commence suit for $5O, 900, charging
malicious prosecution
THROUGHOUT Michigan and at various
points in the West snow-storms were re-
ported on the 25th.
AT a meeting Of the Chicago Local As
sembly No. 1907, which formerly be-
longed to the Knights of Labor, and of
which the Anarchist Parsons was men,
Der, on the 25th resolutions were adopted
condemning his execution and that Of his
brother Anarchists, and denouncing the
courts and the Governor
AT San Jose, CAL, Charles Goslaw was
hanged on the 25th for the murder Of Ii. A.
Grant.
Upon retiring at the Howard House in
Newton, Kan, a few nights ago J. e f.
Insley, aged thirty, and his mother, aged
sixty five, blew out the gas They would
probably die
SOME practical iokers hunting near
Birmingham, Mich, on the Oath over
charged gun and gave it to a boy named
Collier and told him to discharge it. He
did SO, and the gun exploded, fatally in
juring the lad.
THREE children of Mr.. and Mrs G. o.
White, Of Morrison, ILL.,, while playing upon
the ice in Rock Creek on the 26th were pre-
cipitated into the water by the breaking Of
the ice and all were drowned.
AT Wausau, Wis, by the burning Of q
dwelling on the 26th a man named Hon
ickle and his five children lost their lives.
AHEAvY wind-storm on the Goth at Min
cola, Tex, blew down q hall during the
progress of a dance held by colored people.
and five persons were killed and about
twenty injured
IHE county MeaJurer's Office at Center
vile, No, was entered on the 26th and the
safe blown open and robbed of about $780,
600 in cash
AT Oakda1e, Cal, Frank McC utcheon was
lynched on the 26th for setting fire to sew
eral buildings
HE official canvass OF the recent cleo
ton in Dakota showed on the 26th that the
majority for division would not exceed
5000, and that only eight counties in the
Territory voted against prohibition
The furniture factory of Nelson Mather
q Co. at Grand Rapids, Mich, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss, 5000, 600
AN officer named Dalton attempted to
arrest q horse-thief named Smith in Indian
Territory on the 27Th, when general
tight ensued, which suited in the killing
of Dalton and Smith and q Mrs Dixon
AN explosion of a boiler attached to 9
kitchen-range in the Kirby House at Mil
Waukee on the 28th badly shattered the
building and some twenty persons were In
jured, two Of them fatally. Mrs. Gage, 8
cook, was instantly killed
MRS ELIZABETH MoRR1soN died on the
2sth at Winchester, o., at the age of lO1
years
Al St Paul, MINI. on the 28th the ther-
mometar marked 16 degrees below zero;
"a below at Bismarck, D. II; 90 below at
La Crosse, Wis. % below at Huron, b. n;
% below at Cedar Rapids, Ia % below at
Waterloo, Ia, and is below at Watertown,
Wis
u FIRE on the 2sth destroyed large por-
tion Of Cary Station, McHenry County, Ill
La CROSSE (Wis) dispatch of the 2Sth
states that the ice had stopped running in
the Mississippi, and it was said the river
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